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1st April 2008 - Link Blog

Classy Query. Beautifully implemented parody of class-based JavaScript and verbose namespacing as a jQuery extension, from John Resig. The source code has some neat tricks in it, in particular the buildClass() function.

Posted 1st April 2008 at 9:48 am

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